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Word: confidental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dressed in black, she began to dance in jerky, spastic movements-in anguish, as the program notes explained, for the besieged Israelites whose water supply had been cut off by Holofernes. When she got ready to visit the confident enemy, she stripped off her black "garments of mourning," decked herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Judith with Orchestra | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

In its 21-34 cross country win over the Crimson this fall, Massachusetts proved its power in the distances. But Harvard coach Jaakko Mikkola feels confident that his team will put up a good fight in the distance races and that any possible Massachusetts edge in that department will be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U of Mass Races Varsity Track in Briggs Encounter | 1/13/1950 | See Source »

New Yorkers got a good idea last week of what scientists look like. Fifteen thousand of them converged on Manhattan for the 116th convention of the "Triple-A S" (American Association for the Advancement of Science). They were predominantly male, on the average surprisingly young (thirtyish), and anything but grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 15,000 Scientists | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

From that point on, the joke is obvious. Here is no seal clumsily tooting a trumpet and waving a flag in a sawdust ring, but a seal suddenly released into a tank of water -lithe, graceful, confident and effortless. Subtly and with never a false move, Carol's whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Wonderful Leveling Off | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Arriving on your globe for the first time since 1900, I was struck by a change of mood. Humanity in general had come to think of itself in a way different from the confident eagerness of a half-century ago. Then everyone was all optimism, inevitable progress still enjoyed some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lost Illusions | 1/5/1950 | See Source »

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